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ABOUT
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US BACKGROUND ( back to top) Professor Stuart Bunt commenced development of Medex during his employment with the University of Dundee in 1990. Medex was first used to diagnose ophthalmological problems. Trials of the Optex package in Ninewells Hospital, one of the leading U.K. teaching hospitals showed that the program was as accurate as a senior registrar specialising in ophthalmology and much more successful at making correct diagnoses than the typical General Practitioner. This trial proved that the concept was feasible and with the correct input into the database, the system was able to identify diseases with a high degree of accuracy. In 1995 Professor Bunt was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia, where under Professor Bunt's supervision, the expert system engine underwent further refinement and expansion. Professor Bunt employed specialist programmers and students for the further development and trialing of databases covering dermatology and podiatry as well as extending the ophthalmologic work. This stage, funded by the University of Western Australia, included a significant redesign of the expert system engine and database system using programming languages and systems that were not available at the time of the initial programming. In 2002, Paradigm Diagnostics Ltd
was incorporated to acquire the Medex intellectual property from
Professor Bunt and the University of Western Australia. BOARD OF DIRECTORS ( back to top) Alex Bajada ( back to top) Non-Executive Chairman Mr Bajada is a corporate advisory consultant. He has varied experience as a director of public and rivate companies along with ten years experience in stockbroking. He has also been actively involved in local government and is a past president of the Local Government Association of Western Australia. Professor Stuart Bunt ( back to top) Chief Executive Officer Professor Bunt’s expertise in both computer systems and medicine has been instrumental in the project achieving its current level of development. A graduate of Oxford University, receiving a doctorate from the Department of Human Anatomy and the Department of Physiology he worked in leading biomedical research laboratories in the United States for six years before returning to a tenured position in Scotland to teach preclinical medicine. He has taught medicine and carried out research in medical diagnosis in the UK, USA and Australia for more than twenty years. He founded the IAAF, an internationally recognized centre of biomedical image analysis, manipulation and graphic design. He is also a founder and director of SymbioticA, the first arts and biological science research lab in the Southern Hemisphere and in 2001 was elected a member of the Senate (equivalent to the board of directors) of UWA. Claude Solitario ( back to top) Executive Director Mr Claude Solitario has considerable experience in the management of intellectual property and license negotiations. He has been extensively involved in the development and commercialization of technology for nearly twenty years. Claude has held a number of Board and management positions for a variety of companies in industries including biotechnology, automotive technology, film and television production, communications, winemaking and primary production. He has also managed a number of significant capital raisings from various sources including private equity, government grants, debt financing and the issue of shares and other financial instruments in publicly listed companies. Claude is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. Santino Di-Giacomo ( back to top) Non-Executive Director Mr Di Giacomo has held a number of senior international executive positions.He has extensive experience in capital raising activities, international listings, the capture of intellectual property and major healthcare contract and licencing negotiation. Dr Glen Koski ( back to top) Non-Executive Director Dr Glen Koski has been a medical practitioner for 26 years. He has been a federal AMA councilor and has served on a number of federal and state advisory and consultative committees. He has extensive experience in corporate healthcare including medical practice management, mergers and marketing, biotechnology and medical product assessment, development and commercialization and medical and surgical supplies and distribution. SENIOR
EXECUTIVE (
back to top) Chief Programmer Mr. Sweetman has been involved
from the start in the development of the expert system engine (Medex).
Responsible for porting early versions from Prolog to C++. An expert
in C++, Visual Basic, assembler and Java. Previous to Paradigm Diagnostics,
he was director of network services at the University of St. Andrews,
Scotland. He has many years experience developing innovative IT
solutions for academia, medical and allied professions. Iain has
been directly responsible for a computer-based systems advising
on lens choice in cataract surgery (deployed within Scottish ophthalmology
units), analysing ECG fluctuations to predict cardiac stress (undergoing
trail), automatic interpretation of respiratory function test results
(used within a major Scottish chest hospital) and image analysis
of bone fragments for forensic medicine. He has gained large project
skills while designing and implementing two large IT network provisions
for the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee, involving innovative
IT solutions targeted to over 10,000 end users.
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